Genealogy of my Family

Kevin Kwak · #1 (**permalink**) 01-05-2007, 03:50 PM

Starting January 2007, I will be gathering the names of all members that belong in my family tree. Besides adding the names and matching the relations of each member, I'll be structuring the family tree with a diagram.

I remember seeing a several softwares in retail stores that help users build their family tree, even help you search long lost members through ancestry.com, genealogy.com, and other large databases. I'll be using the List function in Microsoft Excel and Macromedia Fireworks to design the diagram.

I will keep you updated with Kevin Kwak's genealogy.

Kevin Kwak · #2 (**permalink**) 02-15-2007, 06:44 PM

Was able to collect a good number of names from my father side. To update with the progress, I decided that not to post the information on the public domain since more than 95% of Kwak.org visitor's are from the US. It wouldn't benefit as all of our grandparents reside in South Korea.

I also wouldn't dare post personal information that others may not be aware of and without their consent. Today's WSJ article title "The Next General of Genealogy Sites" addressed an issue with one of the new genealogy website Geni.com.

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But Geni has already courted controversy -- and raised privacy concerns. Several blog posts have expressed frustration with the level of personal information that can be published about a person, even without their permission. For example, a Geni member can create entire profiles for relatives who don't visit the site, including their birth dates, education, phone number and photos. Some of the identifying pieces of information used by many financial institutions -- such as mother's maiden name and birth date -- are often listed on the site.

To address those concerns, Geni is only allowing visitors to the site to see their own family trees. Geni says that family members are responsible for ensuring that the profile information is correct. (Popular sites such as MySpace rely primarily on similar modes of self-policing.) The company says it doesn't plan to sell the data to marketers. It also says it will introduce more privacy features as the site grows.
Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117150244165609306-
search.html?KEYWORDS=next+generation&COLLECTION=ws jie/6month

But you can't blame Geni.com alone as anyone can post other person's private information in any other genealogy website. And the concept and the ease of use for Geni.com is well developed. Best of all, the price is free.

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Geni.com works like this: users enter their first and last name, email address and gender. A box then pops onto the screen, pink for women and blue for men, where members can add a picture, then fill personal information into a profile. Members then create their family tree by entering the names and email addresses of their family members. Those relatives receive an email from Geni asking them to join the network and help build the tree by inviting more relatives and creating profiles for ancestors. As family trees start to overlap, Geni.com plans to link similar branches together to create one giant family tree where members can track their ancestry and see their distant relations living throughout the world. Right now, Geni doesn't offer access to any databases or other research sources.

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